Life of Pi

Book · 4 characters · 407 quotes · 2000

Quotes from Life of Pi

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"The ship sank. It just sank."
Pi Patel Truth
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"Without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive to tell you my story."
Pi Patel
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"Miracles are the laws of nature that we don't yet understand."
Pi Patel Faith
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"I have learned things in the school of suffering that I could not have learned otherwise."
Pi Patel Wisdom
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"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."
Pi Patel Hope
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"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."
The Narrator Death
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"Religion is like imagination. It makes us who we are."
Pi Patel Faith
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"Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an bounded world."
Pi Patel Nature
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"I have nothing to say of my childhood except that it was unhappy."
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"I have been blessed beyond belief."
Pi Patel Gratitude
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"God is universal. Everyone has their own interpretation."
Pi Patel Faith
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"Stories are the things that stick. Explanations are clear but forgettable."
Pi Patel Literature
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"My official explanation of my experience remains the same as I've always said."
Pi Patel Truth
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"I spent my boyhood swimming, playing with animals, and dreaming of wild things."
Pi Patel
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"What is the purpose of our life? To be loved by cats, surely."
Pi Patel Humor
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"I was reduced to an animal state."
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"I exist; that is the truth."
Pi Patel Truth
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"My suffering taught me the fragility of life."
Pi Patel Wisdom
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"It is remarkable how you can be hungry and thirsty and exhausted and still be thinking clearly."
Pi Patel
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"I learned that faith is a hard-won thing. It cannot be rushed into."
Pi Patel Faith
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"To love someone is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
Pi Patel Love
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"Love is hard to explain."
Pi Patel Love
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"I am a result of my circumstances."
Pi Patel
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"But the more I think about it, the more I realize that a story is the only way to express the truth."
Pi Patel Literature
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"I have liked things about religion, the solace it provides."
Pi Patel Faith
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"I will not eat you today."
Pi Patel
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"The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar."
Pi Patel Hope
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"I have other stats for you. I have survived 227 days at sea."
Pi Patel
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"My name is Piscine Molitor Patel. But I am known as Pi."
Pi Patel
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"You can pray while driving a car very fast and turn a kiln on."
Pi Patel Faith